Re: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06.09.2021 08:04, Arthur Miller wrote:

> > > Different or alternative as Tim proposed goes for anything:).
> >
> > But it's not "Different", it's rather "Familiar", as far as new users are
> > concerned.
>
> That is a different meaning to "different" indeed :). You are interpretting
> "different" as not-familiar or unkown, why I was thinking of "different" as of
> just somethin else.

I'm just looking at the profiles as something for the new users. So if 
we're picking names, tailoring them to the news user seems advantageous.

> Maybe it is best just to smash together something and present it rather than
> trying people to agree to what is to be done? Like vim-people did with evil?

Sure. Please don't let me stop anyone from experimenting and creating 
whatever number of different profiles.

It's better we start this process, rather than get bogged down here 
arguing about particulars.

> A diffent profile could be just a bunch of settings in a file. Why not just take
> a so called contermporary setup and put it in a init file, and add a customize
> variable to let people choose it? Could that work?

I was thinking themes can be a good vehicle because someone can both 
enable and disable a theme (if they find it doesn't suit their 
preference) without restarting Emacs.

But, again, let us not have this preconception stop anyone from 
experimenting.